ZooMaa reveals more about injury that caused retirement from pro Call of Duty IG: ZoomaaFormer New York Subliners pro player Tommy \u2018ZooMaa\u2019 Paparatto has delved into the thumb injury that forced him to retire from professional Call of Duty, just days after shocking fans across the world with his announcement. Fans of competitive Call of Duty will have grown accustomed to the ever-presence of ZooMaa. Representing FaZe Clan from 2015 to 2019, he was one of the pros who successfully made the leap into the Call of Duty League, joining New York Subliners at its inception in late 2019. ZooMaa was always competing at the very top level, helping his Subliners team win their Week 11 home series. However, back on January 19, he shocked the CoD community with an announcement of early retirement, citing an ongoing thumb issue as the primary reason. He said: \u201cPlaying through the weakness and pain in my hand just isn\u2019t possible anymore.\u201d On January 22, he followed up his initial announcement by delving a little deeper into the injury. He explained that playing on mouse and keyboard is significantly easier than controller. \u201cSo the way it works is that right now I\u2019m having trouble with the range of motion in my thumb,\u201d he said. \u201cThat comes from the wrist, you can see the scar\u2026 and it just f**ks with the range of motion of my thumb, so like when I\u2019m on the analogue stick my thumb is very weak, and I have a hard time just moving the analogue stick.\u201d \u201cBut with a mouse and keyboard I don\u2019t use that range of motion,\u201d he finished. \u201cThe only thing I use my thumb for is clicking one of my side buttons of my mouse and I have no problem doing that. It feels good playing on mouse and keyboard.\u201d ZooMaa has stated that the issues and pain will prevent him from competing at the top level of professional Call of Duty, but has explained that he will still be streaming and creating content. Related: Nadeshot vs H3CZ: OpTic\u2019s Rivalry with 100 Thieves begins NYSL announced the acquisition of Asim to fill Zoomaa\u2019s vacant spot. Their roster, heading into the second CDL season, is as follows: Mackenzie \u2018Mack\u2019 Kelley – James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks – Conor \u2018Diamondcon\u2019 Johst – Obaid \u2018Asim\u2019 Asim – Paco \u2018HyDra\u2019 Rusiewiez (sub) –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ZooMaa reveals more about injury that caused retirement from pro Call of Duty IG: ZoomaaFormer New York Subliners pro player Tommy \u2018ZooMaa\u2019 Paparatto has delved into the thumb injury that forced him to retire from professional Call of Duty, just days after shocking fans across the world with his announcement. Fans of competitive Call of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}